2012

I don't know why, but I am totally stoked about 2012. I just feel like a lot of good things are going to happen this year. I have some tentative trips planned (I always have tentative trips planned in my head, it's the ones I can't get out of my head that usually turn into reality, and I have one right now that absolutely will not leave me alone), and I'm looking for a good summer job (there's one in particular that I have my eye on). I have in mind several things I'd like to accomplish this year, and I just feel good. I feel like this is MY year.

A brother at church recently shared this quote (he recited the whole thing from memory). I think it just might become my theme for this year:

If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it,
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it;
If only desire of it
Makes your aim strong enough
Never to tire of it,
If life seems all empty and useless without it
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,
If gladly you’ll sweat for it,
Fret for it,
Plan for it,
Pray with all your strength for it,
If you’ll simply go after the thing that you want,
With all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope, and confidence; stern pertinacity,
If neither cold or poverty, famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness, nor pain,
Of body or brain,
Can turn you away from the aim that you want,
If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,
You’ll get it.

-Anonymous

So, what do you want from this year?

GO GET IT.